Obituary of Elizabeth Reuschenbach
Matzke
- December 29, 1939
Green
Bay Presss Gazette, December, 1939.
Mrs.
Philip B. Matzke, town of DePere,
a resident of Brown County
since birth, died at 11:15 Friday night at St.
Vincent’s Hospital,
Green
Bay.
Death was due to complications.
Mrs. Matzke
would have been 62 had she lived until Jan 31, 1940.
Mrs.
Matzke,
who was born in Fort Howard,
resided there and
in the
town of Humboldt and Glenmore until her marriage in 1900, when
she took up residence in the town of DePere. She is survived
by her husband, eight sons and one daughter.
The sons are
Edward, Frank, Arthur, Carl, Green Bay;
Wilbur, Bellevue;
Sylvester,
William, Joseph, at home. The
daughter,
Mrs. Bernard Vermeire,
DePere. A brother,
Frank Koenig,
Glenmore, and eight grand
children also survive.
A
solemn requiem high mass with three priests was held at 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning at St. Mary's church, DePere, with interment
at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery.
The
pallbearers were her nephews; Harry Koenig, Clem Matzke, Ray
Matzke, Wm. Becher, Fred Matzke, Philip Kaster.
Submitted by Pat Matzke